Poet of the Month: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[ophelia_no_yume]

This man should need no introduction considering he is quite well known in America so there is a good possibility you've read one of his poems in your English class at some point in time, probably his famous citing of Paul Revere's ride:
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year
which created the legendary ride that we Americans know and love, as well as his Evangeline which was very popular in its time.
Today I give you a well-known poem that I bet you've read before but it bears reading again:

The Arrow and the Song

I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

Lovely, don't you think? And now I shall leave you to read more of his poetry curled up with a warm cup of milky tea on this cold (and perhaps rainy) night.

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Ok, let's add some more links of poems that I like for fun:

• Kéramos
  
• The Rainy Day
  
• Holidays
  
• A Psalm of Life
  
• The Day is Done

Hope you enjoyed them!